Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval &Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and oftenchallenges some of the key issues and current debates relating toRenaissance art and culture. Puts forward original research, including evidence provided byan in-depth study arising from the Medieval & RenaissanceGallery project Contributions are unusual in their combination of a variety ofapproaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of theobjects themselves New theories emerge from several papers, some of whichchallenge current thinking …mehr
Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval &Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and oftenchallenges some of the key issues and current debates relating toRenaissance art and culture.
Puts forward original research, including evidence provided byan in-depth study arising from the Medieval & RenaissanceGallery project
Contributions are unusual in their combination of a variety ofapproaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of theobjects themselves
New theories emerge from several papers, some of whichchallenge current thinking
Peta Motture is Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was previously Chief Curator of the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries. She has published widely on medieval and later sculpture, specializing primarily in the Italian Renaissance. Motture has co-curated several exhibitions and is curator of the Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme at the V&A. Dr Michelle O'Malley is Reader in Art History at the University of Sussex, where she has also held the position of Director of Research in the School of Humanities. Previously, she was Head of Education for Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Dr. O'Malley is the author of The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy (2005) and The Material Renaissance (co-edited with Evelyn Welch, 2007).
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Notes on contributors ix Introduction Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley 1 1 Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy Michelle O'Malley 9 2 Set in stone: monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence Meghan Callahan & Donal Cooper 33 3 Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 Norbert Jopek 56 4 New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A Nick Humphrey & Martino Ferrari Bravo 71 5 Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement Elizabeth Miller & Alun Graves 94 6 Dancing, love and the 'beautiful game': a new interpretation of a group of fi fteenth-century 'gaming' boxes Paula Nuttall 119 7 Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum Kirstin Kennedy 142 8 Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining Flora Dennis 156 Bibliography 185 Index 212
Notes on contributors ix Introduction Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley 1 1 Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy Michelle O'Malley 9 2 Set in stone: monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence Meghan Callahan & Donal Cooper 33 3 Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 Norbert Jopek 56 4 New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A Nick Humphrey & Martino Ferrari Bravo 71 5 Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement Elizabeth Miller & Alun Graves 94 6 Dancing, love and the 'beautiful game': a new interpretation of a group of fi fteenth-century 'gaming' boxes Paula Nuttall 119 7 Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum Kirstin Kennedy 142 8 Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining Flora Dennis 156 Bibliography 185 Index 212
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